BREATHE

A fully original experimental and cross-genre program, co-composed by and performed with an all-star instrumental quartet, exploring breath as a foundational and essential instrument, and the source of our individual and collective expression, inspiration, and survival. Communicating musical ideas through personal story-telling, improvisation, live electronics and processing the ensemble goes to the edge of comfort, and back again, grappling with the power and vulnerability we derive from this increasingly endangered resource.

Read the artists’ own reflections about the workshops to develop BREATHE.

PROGRAM

CHARLOTTE GREVE
expression
accordion
release
WENDEL PATRICK
breath
like it was yesterday
KEN THOMSON
airtone
sputter
gone
JASON TREUTING
With every breath
counting chorale
I you we

Artists

LORELEI ENSEMBLE, Beth Willer, conductor
Charlotte Greve, alto saxophone & composer
Wendel Patrick, keyboards/electronics & composer
Ken Thomson, bass clarinet & composer
Jason Treuting, drum set and vibraphone & composer

COMPOSERS

The BREATHE program is funded in part by the National Endowment for the Arts; the Dean’s Excellence Accelerator Awards (DXA) of The Peabody Institute of The Johns Hopkins University; The Aaron Copland Fund for Music, Inc.; The Amphion Foundation, Inc.; and the Lorna Cooke deVaron Grant, an Alfred Nash Patterson Grant from Choral Arts New England.